Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to ...

Marble bust of Aristotle. Public domain. Metaphors are not user-friendly. They are hard to find and hard to use well. Unfortunately, metaphor is a mainstay of good lyric writing; indeed, of most ...

Metaphors fill our lives, and we often have no trouble recognizing their symbolic nature. We know that when captains shout, “All hands on deck,” they want more than their crews’ hands. Clear skies can ...

This lesson is as fun as recess! Join Ms. Randi House as she talks about similes and metaphors and how they make reading a lot more interesting. Rise and Shine is available to stream on pbs.org and ...

"Narcissus" by Caravaggio (c. 1598). Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain What is an allegory? An allegory (Greek, "a speaking about something else") is a complete and cohesive narrative, for ...

This metaphor fits into the classic conceptual metaphor theory of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, which argues that concepts ...

Metaphors and other figurative language are deeply woven into the fabric of human communication, as this very sentence actually demonstrates. But how do our brains translate these metaphors into ...

Two experiments were conducted with college students to determine the extent to which metaphors affected the learning of statistical principles. The first experiment used examples from nonbusiness ...